Sentences with phrase «bigger than my church»

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Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

I would bet — big money — that the fraction of FUBARLiberals who exhibit these characteristics is in fact larger than within the Roman Catholic Church....

A Christian charity has said the Church has a «big role to play» after unemployment rose by more than... More

The Church is much bigger than that.

I know some avid church attenders who are willing to judge themselves as honestly as they judge those «outside» the chosen church and who do not play the «My Pastor's Doctrinally Bigger Than Your Pastor» but they are few and far between.

Missional churches want to do more than just have big buildings and Bible studies, but instead want to embrace culture so it can be redeemed and transformed by the love of Jesus.

I believe that money has become for many churches a bigger priority than it ever should be.

I sometimes feel that churches make sin a much bigger deal than God does.

I'm voting for Obama becuase he is a Christian and shares more Christian values than Romneys mega Morman big money church.

When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a church, but alone, in my room, after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.

the church is bigger than the abuse problems....

Since the church is far bigger than that graduating class, we've already got a running start.

That's a big part of what my new book tries to do: propose (by example rather than argument) new ways of reading the Bible, new ways of imagining church gatherings, new ways of inviting rather than suppressing questions and dialogue.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

Gossip may be a bigger sin in churches today than the sins we normally condemn.

Some people need to learn to set boundaries but this girl's boundaries were no bigger than her view of life and church and faith at the time.

Within minutes I was laughing and eating chicken nuggets with a bunch of bright, engaged Christian students (at Wingate University), remembering once again that the Church is bigger and more beautiful than its ugliest moments.

In the 2016 Barna research study commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry, church leadership indicated that this problem is much bigger than it was 20 years ago, yet only 7 percent of pastors said they have a ministry program for those struggling with porn.

Organized churches are economic units & the preacher is out to show off with a bigger church than his / her fellows & have a comfortable income.

What we need, more than ever, is a church where we can shed the pretenses, and bring our doubts, our big questions, and our bigger fears.

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

The Big Church Switch urged churches to choose companies that use renewables rather than finite resources.

Since ascending the throne of Saint Peter, Pope Francis has shown more than any pope in my life time (I am 68 years old and a Roman Catholic) that he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ and he is the biggest breath of fresh air the Catholic Church has seen in centuries.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

The church is much bigger than I ever wanted it to be.

This is just proof the church should have handle the problem better, than maybe some of you could have seen this man for the man he was instead of his biggest failure.

This is just proof the church should have handleD the problem better, thEn, (NOT THAN), maybe some of you could have seen this man for the man he was instead of, (JUST SEEING) his biggest failure.

Many churches are bigger fantasy playgrounds than the porn industry.

In the past year, the government of a wealthy coastal province in China has taken the same thing from more than 400 churches: a big red cross.

I think it is important to see this «LEAVING» as much bigger than «Church» — it is a universal phenomena with similar patterns no matter which domain.

The Catholic Church is big on symbols and, sometimes, puts too much focus on those symbols and practices than on the core tents of its faith.

this is the same guy that defends ped priests and ignores those that are victoms... we know the catholic church is bigger than its sins

Forgiveness yes, but because of his stature he should step down since the church is much bigger than he is.

I'm a big fan of walking to the nearest church to you, dead or alive — and loving them until there's more life there than when you arrived and staying there until circumstances physically move you out of that neighborhood.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Then start preparing for your calling by thinking much bigger than simply filling a specific job (paid or volunteer) in a church.

I'm live in South Africa, which makes it a little different I think that's what I'm trying to say — the church is bigger than your context, and I think this is something good to remember.

I think the biggest disconnect I have with you Jeremy, is that often your experience seems to be entirely different than mine; so that what seems to you to be «typical» to «most churches» doesn't seem to be the case to me, and probably anything that I would guess is «typical» could be just as foreign to you.

It assumes that Truth is to be found, and that God is not hiding it from us, that the Church is no mere human institution, that God is bigger than human mistakes.

That is a huge issue in my books, much bigger than a pastor who leads a congregation of a church that seats 1200 people... really.

New data has shown a bigger gender pay gap at the Church of England headquarters than at the BBC.

For every little street preacher advocating that the teachings of christ be followed there are millions attending mega churches in their new escalades who are far more worried about their clothes, jewelry, getting that new 60 inch big screen... than they are about anything else.

They, the Church, are making this a bigger issue than it needs to be.

«We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else,» said Ernie Allen, president of the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

«Were going to start a new bigger, more contemporary, more relevant, life changing youthful hip church than you have.»

In one of his addresses, the then President of the Church, Spencer Kimball, even made a big deal about how anyone could see that the Native Americans that were missionaries for the Church were lighter than their non-Mormon relatives.

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Perhaps no other man apart from Jesus has had a bigger influence on the church than Paul.

Church is much bigger, larger, and better than that.

I don't know the history really well, but I'm pretty sure martin luther had a much bigger problem with the church accepting money for people to «get out of purgatory faster» and with the idea that saying 10 «Hail Mary's» gets people forgiven than he ever had with the act of confessing.